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\title[\hfilneg EJDE-2004/51\hfil Solvability of Neumann boundary-value problems]
{Solvability of Neumann boundary-value problems with Carath\'{e}odory nonlinearities}

\author[Abdelkader Boucherif \& Nawal Al-Malki\hfil EJDE-2004/51\hfilneg]
{Abdelkader Boucherif \& Nawal Al-Malki}

\address{Abdelkader Boucherif \hfill\break 
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals\\
Department of Mathematical Sciences\\
Box 5046, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia}
\email{aboucher@kfupm.edu.sa}

\address{Nawal Al-Malki \hfill\break 
Science College for Girls\\
Department of Mathematics\\
Box 838, Dammam. Saudi Arabia}
\email{malkinh@yahoo.com}
\date{}
\thanks{Submitted February 24, 2004. Published April 6, 2004.}
\subjclass[2000]{34B15}
\keywords{Neumann problems, Carath\'{e}odory functions, a priori estimates,
\hfill\break\indent topological transversality theorem}

\begin{abstract}
 We propose a sufficient condition, on the nonlinear term,  
 for the existence of solutions. This new condition is weaker  
 than the usual sign condition and than the assumption  on the 
 existence of constant upper and lower solutions.
\end{abstract}

\maketitle

\numberwithin{equation}{section} 
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section]
\newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma} 
\newtheorem{proposition}[theorem]{Proposition} 
\newtheorem{remark}[theorem]{Remark}

\section{Introduction}

This paper is devoted to the study of the existence of solutions to Neumann
boundary-value problems for nonlinear second order differential equations
with Carath\'{e}odory nonlinearities. More specifically, we consider the
problem
\begin{equation}  \label{e1}
\begin{gathered} y''(t)=f(t,y(t),y'(t))\quad 0<t<1 \\ y'(0)=y'(1)=0
\end{gathered}
\end{equation}
where $f:[0,1]\times \mathbb{R}^{2}\to \mathbb{R}$ is an $L^{1}$-Carath\'{e}%
odory function, i.e. $f$ satisfies the following conditions:

\begin{itemize}
\item[(i)] $f(\cdot, y,z)$ is measurable for all $(y,z) \in\mathbb{R}^{2}$.

\item[(ii)] $f(t, \cdot, \cdot)$ is continuous for almost all $t \in [0,1]$.

\item[(iii)] For each $K > 0$ there exists $h_{K} \in L^{1}(0,1)$ such that $%
|y| + |z| \leq K$ implies $|f(t,y,z)| \leq h_{K} (t)$ for almost all $t\in
[0,1]$.
\end{itemize}

Problem \eqref{e1} has been investigated by several authors under suitable
conditions on the nonlinearity. See for instance \cite{b1,c1,g1,g2,g3} and
the references therein. In most of these works the nonlinearity is assumed
to be either continuous or of the Carath\'{e}odory class. The techniques
involved are based on the upper and lower solution method, the topological
degree, or the topological transversality theorem. We should point out that
a different class of Neumann problems has been considered in \cite%
{k1,k2,m1,w1}. Our assumptions and techniques of proofs are different and
our results cannot be trivially deduced from the previous works. In fact, we
generalize the results in \cite{g2,g3} and some of the results in \cite%
{c1,g1}.

\section{Preliminaries}

Let $I$ denote the real interval $[0,1]$. Let $X = AC^{1}(I)$ denote the
Banach space of real-valued functions that are absolutely continuous,
together with their first derivatives, on $I$. This space is endowed with
the norm
\begin{equation*}
\|y\| = \max\{|y(t)| + |y^{\prime}(t)|; \; t \in I\}\,.
\end{equation*}
Let $\mathop{\rm Car}(I\times \mathbb{R}^{2})$ be the set of real-valued
functions satisfying the Carath\'{e}odory conditions (i), (ii), (iii) above.

By a solution to \eqref{e1} we mean a function $y \in X_0:= \{u \in X :
u'(0) = u'(1) = 0\}$ satisfying the differential equation in %
\eqref{e1} almost everywhere on $I$. Note that the homogeneous problem $%
y^{\prime\prime}=0, y^{\prime}(0) = y^{\prime}(1)=0$ has nontrivial
solutions. So, we shall consider the following problem, for $m > 1$:
\begin{equation}  \label{e1m}
\begin{gathered} y''(t) = \frac{1}{m} y(t) + f(t,y(t), y'(t)), \quad 0 < t <
1 \\ y'(0) = y'(1) = 0 \end{gathered}
\end{equation}
and consider \eqref{e1} as a limiting case when $m \to + \infty$.

Our aim is to provide sufficient conditions on $f$ that will make \eqref{e1m}
solvable. First, we show that solutions to \eqref{e1m}  are uniformly
bounded, independently of $m$. Then, we use the Arzela-Ascoli theorem to
obtain the solvability of \eqref{e1}.

Since our arguments are based on the topological transversality theorem (see
\cite{d1,b1} for definitions and properties), we shall consider a
one-parameter family of problems related to \eqref{e1m}. For $0 \leq \lambda
\leq 1$, consider
\begin{equation}
\begin{gathered} y''(t) = \frac{1}{m} y(t) + \lambda f(t,y(t), y'(t)), \quad
0 < t < 1 \\ y'(0) = y'(1) = 0\,. \end{gathered}  \label{e1ml}
\end{equation}
Note that for $\lambda=1$, the above equation is exactly \eqref{e1m}. Also
note that when $\lambda=0$, equation \eqref{e1ml} has only the trivial
solution. It is clear that \eqref{e1ml} is equivalent to
\begin{equation*}
y^{\prime}(t) - y^{\prime}(0) - \frac{1}{m} \int^{t}_0 y(s) ds = \lambda
\int^{t}_0 f(s,y(s), y^{\prime}(s)) ds\,.
\end{equation*}
Define the linear operator $L_m: X_0 \to C_0 (I)$ by
\begin{equation*}
(L_my)(t) = y^{\prime}(t) - y^{\prime}(0) - \frac{1}{m} \int^{t}_0 y(s) ds,
\quad t \in I\,.
\end{equation*}
Here $C_0(I) = \{u \in C(I); u(0) = 0\}$. Also, define $N_{f} (\lambda,
\cdot): X_0 \to C(I)$ by
\begin{equation*}
N_{f} (\lambda,y)(t) = \lambda \int^{t}_0 f(s,y(s), y^{\prime}(s)) ds,\quad
t \in I \,.
\end{equation*}
It follows that \eqref{e1ml} is equivalent to
\begin{equation}  \label{e1pml}
L_m y = N_{f} (\lambda, y),
\end{equation}
in the sense that every solution of \eqref{e1ml} is a solution of 
\eqref{e1pml} and vice-versa.

\begin{lemma}\label{lm1}
The operator $L_m$ is invertible.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
Note that the equation $L_my = p$ is equivalent to
\begin{equation*}
y(t) = y(0) + \frac{1}{m} \int^{t}_0 (t-s) y(s) ds + \int^{t}_0 p(s) ds\,.
\end{equation*}
Since this equation is a linear Volterra integral equation, it has
a unique solution (see for instance \cite{y1}). This completes the
proof.
\end{proof}

\begin{lemma} \label{lm2}
The operator $N_{f} (\lambda, \cdot)$ is
continuous and completely continuous.
\end{lemma}

The proof of this lemma can be found in \cite{g2}.

\section{A Priori Estimates}

In this section we present a new sufficient condition on  $f\in \mathop{\rm
Car}(I\times \mathbb{R}^{2})$ in order to obtain a priori bounds,
independent of $\lambda $ and $m$, on solutions $y$ of \eqref{e1ml}. This
condition is an improvement of condition (H1) in \cite{g3} and is more
general than the assumption on the existence of constant upper and lower
solutions in the correct order or in the reverse order in \cite{c1}.

\begin{proposition} \label{prop1}
 Assume $f \in \mathop{\rm Car} (I \times\mathbb{R}^2)$
 satisfies the condition
\begin{itemize}
\item[(C1)] There exists $M_0>0$ such that
$\Big[ \int_0^{1}f(t,M_0,0)dt\Big]
\Big[\int_0^{1}f(t,-M_0,0)dt\Big] <0$.
\end{itemize}
Then any possible solution $y$ of
\begin{equation} \label{e2ml}
\begin{gathered}
y''(t) = \frac{1}{m} y (t) + \lambda f_1 (t, y(t),y'(t)) \quad 0 < t < 1 \\
y'(0) = y'(1) =0
\end{gathered}
\end{equation}
satisfies
$|y(t)|\leq M_0$  for all $t\in I$ .
\end{proposition}

\begin{proof}
The proof is similar to that of Lemma 2.2 in \cite{g3}, but we reproduce it
here for the sake of completeness. Without loss of generality, we prove only
the case when $\int^{1}_0 f(t, M_0, 0)dt > 0$ and $\int^{1}_0 f(t, \,-M_0,
0)dt < 0$. The other case is similar.

Consider the modified problem \eqref{e2ml} with
\begin{equation*}
f_1(t,y,z) =
\begin{cases}
\max\Big\{f(t,y,z), - \frac{M_0}{m} + \int^{1}_0f(t,M_0,0) dt\Big\} & y > M_0
\\
f(t,y,z) & -M_0 \leq y \leq M_0 \\
\min\Big\{f(t,y,z), \frac{M_0}{m} + \int^{1}_0 f(t,-M_0, 0) dt\Big\} & y < -
M_0%
\end{cases}
\end{equation*}
%\ Remark 1.
We remark that any solution $y$ of \eqref{e2ml} that satisfies $|y(t)|\leq
M_0$ is a solution of \eqref{e1ml}, because in this case $%
f_1(t,y(t),y^{\prime}(t)\equiv f(t,y(t),y^{\prime}(t))$.

Let $y$ be a solution of \eqref{e2ml}, and let $t_0\in I$ be a
value where $y$ achieves its positive maximum. Then
$y^{\prime}(t_0)=0$.

Assume that $y(t_0)>M_0$  and $t_0\in (0,1)$. Then there exists $a>0$ such
that $y(t)>M_0$  for all $t\in [ t_0,t_0+a]$.  It follows from the
differential equation in \eqref{e2ml} and the definition of  $f_1$ that for
all $t \in [t_0, t_0 + a]$,
\begin{equation*}
y^{\prime\prime}(t) \geq \frac{y(t)}{m} - \frac{M_0}{m} + \int^{1}_0 f(t,
M_0, 0) ds \ = \frac{y(t) - M_0}{m} + \int^{1}_0 f(t,M_0, 0) ds > 0\,.
\end{equation*}
This implies that $y^{\prime}(t) = \int^{t}_{t_0} y^{\prime\prime}(s) ds > 0
\mbox{
for all } t \in [t_0, t_0 + a]$, which yields
\begin{equation*}
y(t) - y (t_0)= \int^{t}_{t_0} y^{\prime}(\tau)d\tau > 0 \quad \mbox{for all
} t \in [t_0, t_0, a].
\end{equation*}
This contradicts that $y(t_0)$ is the maximum of $y$. Hence $y(t) \leq M_0$
for all $t \in (0, 1)$.

If $t_0=0$, then assuming $y(0)>M_0$ we shall arrive at a contradiction.
Indeed,
\begin{equation*}
y^{\prime\prime}(0)=\frac{y(0)}{m}+\lambda f_1(0,y(0),0)
\end{equation*}
implies
\begin{equation*}
y^{\prime\prime}(0)\geq \frac{y(0)-M_0}{m}+\int_0^{1}f(s,M_0,0)ds>0\,.
\end{equation*}
So $y^{\prime}$ is strictly increasing to the right of $t = 0$ (but
sufficiently near $0$). Then $y^{\prime}(t) > y^{\prime}(0) = 0$ for $t$
near 0; and so, $y$ is strictly increasing to the right of $t = 0$ and $y(0)$
is not the maximum of $y$ on $I$. This is the desired contradiction. Hence $%
y(0) \leq M_0$.

Similarly, we can show that $y(1) \leq M_0$. Thus $y(t) \leq M_0$ for all $t
\in I$.

Now, in case $y$ achieves a negative minimum at $t = \tau_0$ such that $%
y(\tau_0)< - M_0$ and $\tau_0 \in (0,1)$ then there exists $b > 0$ such that
$y(t) < - M_0$ for all $t \in [\tau_0,\tau_0 + b]$. It follows from the
differential equation in \eqref{e2ml} and the definition of $f_1$ that for
all $t \in [\tau_0, \tau_0 + b]$,
\begin{equation*}
y^{\prime\prime}(t) \leq \frac{y(t)+M_0}{m} + \int^{1}_0 f(s, - M_0,0) ds
\leq 0
\end{equation*}
which leads to $y^{\prime}(t) = \int^{t}_{\tau_0} y^{\prime\prime}(s) ds <0$
for all $t \in [\tau_0, \tau_0 + b]$ and
\begin{equation*}
y(t) - y (\tau_0)= \int^{t}_{\tau_0} y^{\prime}(s) ds < 0 \quad \mbox{for
all } t \in [\tau_0, \tau_0 + b]\,.
\end{equation*}
This contradicts that $y(\tau_0)$ is the minimum of $y$ on $I$.

We can handle the case of a minimum at $\tau_0 = 0$ or $\tau_0=1$ in a
similar way as above. Hence, we have proved that
\begin{equation*}
- M_0 \leq y(t) \leq M_0 \mbox{ for all } t \in I,
\end{equation*}
which completes the proof.
\end{proof}

\begin{remark} \label{rmk2} \rm
Hypothesis (H1) in \cite{g3} states that there exists $M>0$ such that
$f(t,M,0)\geq 0$ and $f(t,-M,0)\leq 0$ almost everywhere in $I$.
Our condition is much weaker than (H1), since we allow
the possibility of $f(t,M_0, 0) < 0$ on a subset of $I$ with positive
measure as long as $\int^{1}_0 f(t,M_0, 0) dt$ remains
positive; or $f(t, - M_0, 0) > 0$ on a subset of $I$ with positive measure
as long as $\int^{1}_0 f(t, - M_0, 0) dt$ remains negative.
\end{remark}

\begin{remark} \label{rmk3} \rm
 From the definition of upper and lower solutions, it follows that
(H1) in \cite{g3} implies that  $-M_0$ is a lower solution and $M_0$ is an upper
solution. Hence our condition is more general than the assumption of the
existence of constant upper and lower solutions.
Moreover, the case $\int_0^{1}f(t,M_0,0)dt<0$  and
$\int_0^{1}f(t,-M_0,0)dt>0$ is more general than the condition of
existence of constant upper and lower solutions in the reverse order
(see \cite{c1}).
\end{remark}

Our next result gives an a priori bound on the first derivative of any
solution $y$ of \eqref{e2ml} satisfying $|y(t)| \leq M_0$ for all $t \in I$.

\begin{proposition} \label{prop2}
Assume $f \in \mathop{\rm Car} (I \times \mathbb{R}^2)$ satisfies the
condition
\begin{itemize}
\item[(C2)] There exist $q \in L^{1}(I)$,
$\Phi: [0, +\infty)\to (0, + \infty)$ nondecreasing with $1 / \Phi$ integrable over
bounded intervals, and
\[
\int^{+\infty}_{M_0} \frac{d\sigma}{\Phi(\sigma)} > \|q\|_{L^{1}}
\]
such that
$|f(t,y,z))| \leq q(t) \Phi(|z|)$ for all
$(t,y) \in I \times [-M_0,M_0]$  and all $z \in \mathbb{R}$.
\end{itemize}
Then, there exists $M_1 > 0$ such that $|y'(t)| \leq M_1$
for all $t \in I$ for any solution $y$ of \eqref{e2ml}  with
$|y(t)| \leq M_0$ for all $t \in I$.
\end{proposition}

\begin{proof}
Let $y$ be a solution of \eqref{e2ml} such that $|y(t)| \leq M_0$  for all $%
t \in I$. Condition (C2) implies
\begin{equation*}
|y^{\prime\prime}(t)| \leq \frac{|y(t)|}{m} + q(t) \Phi (|y^{\prime}(t)|)
\quad \mbox{for all } t \in I
\end{equation*}
Since $m > 1$ and $|y(t)| \leq M_0$, we have
\begin{equation*}
|y^{\prime\prime}(t)| \leq M_0 + q(t) \Phi (|y^{\prime}(t)|) \quad \mbox{for
all } t \in I\,.
\end{equation*}
On the other hand,
\begin{equation*}
|y^{\prime}(t)| = \Big|\int^{t}_0 y^{\prime\prime}(s) ds\Big| \leq
\int^{t}_0 |y^{\prime\prime}(s)| ds \quad \mbox{for all } t \in I.
\end{equation*}
Hence
\begin{equation*}
|y^{\prime}(t)| \leq M_0 t + \int^{t}_0 q(s) \Phi (|y^{\prime}(s)|) ds \quad %
\mbox{for all } t \in I\,.
\end{equation*}
Since $0 \leq t \leq 1$, we infer that
\begin{equation*}
|y^{\prime}(t)| \leq M_0 + \int^{t}_0 q(s) \Phi (|y^{\prime}(s)|)ds \quad %
\mbox{for all } t \in I\,.
\end{equation*}
Let
\begin{equation*}
u(t) = M_0 + \int^{t}_0 q(s) \Phi (|y^{\prime}(s)|) ds \quad \mbox{for all }
t \in I
\end{equation*}
Then $|y^{\prime}(t)| \leq u(t)$ and $u'(t) = q(t) \Phi
(|y^{\prime}(t)|)$ for all $t \in I$. Since $\Phi$ is nondecreasing,
\begin{equation*}
u'(t) \leq q(t) \Phi(u(t)) \quad \mbox{for all } t \in I
\end{equation*}
Therefore,
\begin{equation*}
\frac{u'(t)}{\Phi(u(t))} \leq q(t) \quad \mbox{for all } t \in I.
\end{equation*}
It follows that
\begin{equation*}
\int^{t}_0 \frac{u'(s)ds}{\Phi(u(s))} \leq \int^{t}_0 q(s) ds \leq
\int^{1}_0 q(s) ds = \|q\|_{L^{1}}.
\end{equation*}
This implies
\begin{equation*}
\int^{u(t)}_{M_0} \frac{d\sigma}{\Phi(\sigma)} \leq \|q\|_{L^{1}}.
\end{equation*}
The condition on $\Phi$ implies that there exists $M_1 > 0$ such that $u(t)
\leq M_1$ for all $t \in I$. Therefore, $|y^{\prime}(t)| \leq M_1$ for all $%
t \in I$, which completes the proof.
\end{proof}

\section{Existence of Solutions}

In this section we state and prove our existence result.

\begin{theorem} \label{thm3}
Assume that $f \in \mathop{\rm Car}(I \times \mathbb{R}^{2})$ satisfies
conditions (C1) and (C2). Then problem \eqref{e1} has at
least one solution.
\end{theorem}

\begin{proof}
We have seen in the above discussion that any possible solution $y$ of %
\eqref{e2ml} satisfies
\begin{equation*}
|y(t)| \leq M_0 \quad\mbox{and}\quad |y^{\prime}(t)| \leq M_1 \quad \mbox{
for all } t \in I\,.
\end{equation*}
Let $M:= M_0 + M_1$. Then $\|y\| \leq M$. It is clear that problem %
\eqref{e2ml} is equivalent to
\begin{equation}  \label{e3ml}
y = L^{-1}_m N_{f_1} (\lambda, y)
\end{equation}
Let $U := \{y \in X_0; \|y\| < 1 + M\}$. Then we can easily show
that for any $\lambda$, the operator $L^{-1}_m N_{f_1} (\lambda,
\cdot)$ is compact (see \cite{g1}) and has no fixed point on
$\partial U$, the boundary of $U$. Therefore, $L^{-1}_m
N_{f_1}(.,.): [0,1] \times \overline{U} \to X_0$ is a compact
homotopy without fixed point on $ \partial U$. Since $L^{-1}_m
N_{f_1}(0, \cdot) \equiv 0$ is essential, then by the topological
transversality theorem (see \cite{b1,d1}) $L^{-1}_m N_{f_1}(1,
\cdot)$ is essential. Consequently, there exists $y \in U$ such
that $y = L^{-1}_m N_{f_1}(1, y)$, which means that $y$ is a
solution of \eqref{e2ml} for $\lambda=1$. But, we have seen that
any solution of \eqref{e2ml}, satisfying $|y(t)| \leq M_0$ is also
a solution of \eqref{e1ml}.
Hence \eqref{e1ml}, with $\lambda=1$, has at least one solution. But \eqref{e1ml} is exactly %
\eqref{e1m} for $\lambda=1$. Hence, we have proved that for each
$m
> 1$, problem \eqref{e1m} has at least one solution, which we
denote by $y_m$. Moreover, $y_m$, satisfies the estimates
\begin{equation*}
|y_m(t)| \leq M_0\quad\mbox{and}\quad |y^{\prime}_m(t)| \leq M_1 \quad %
\mbox{for all} t \in I.
\end{equation*}
Furthermore, $M_0$ and $M_1$ are independent of $m$. This shows that the
sequences $\{y_m(t)\}$ and $\{y^{\prime}_m(t)\}$ are uniformly bounded.

Now,
\begin{equation*}
y_m^{\prime}(t)=\int_0^{t}y^{\prime\prime}(s)ds=\frac{1}{m}
\int_0^{t}y_m(s)ds+\int_0^{t}f(s,y_m(s),y_m^{\prime}(s)ds.
\end{equation*}
This implies
\begin{equation*}
y^{\prime}_m (t_2)- y^{\prime}(t_1)= \frac{1}{m } \int^{t_2}_{t_1} y_m(s) ds
+ \int^{t_2}_{t_1} f(s,y_m(s),y^{\prime}_m(s)) ds\,.
\end{equation*}
Since $m > 1$ and $f \in \mathop{\rm Car}(I \times \mathbb{R}^{2})$, we have
\begin{equation*}
|y^{\prime}_m(t_2)- y^{\prime}_m(t_1)| \leq M_0 |t_2 - t_1| +
\int^{t_2}_{t_1} h_{M_0}(s) ds\,.
\end{equation*}
This shows that $\{y^{\prime}_m\}$ is equicontinuous. Also, $y_m(t) = y_m(0)
+ \int^{t}_0 y^{\prime}_m (s) ds$ implies
\begin{equation*}
y_m(\tau_2)- y_m(\tau_1)= \int^{\tau_2}_{\tau_1} y^{\prime}_m(s) ds
\end{equation*}
By proposition \ref{prop2} we have $|y^{\prime}_m(t) \leq M_1$ for all $t$.
Thus
\begin{equation*}
|y_m (\tau_2)- y_m (\tau_1)| \leq M_1 |\tau_2 - \tau_1|
\end{equation*}
So that $\{y_m\}$ is also equicontinuous.

By the Arzela-Ascoli theorem, we can extract from $\{y_m\}$  and $%
\{y^{\prime}_m\}$ subsequences, which we label the same, and that are
uniformly convergent on $I$. Let $y(t) = \lim_{m \to + \infty} y_m(t)$ and $%
z(t) = \lim_{m \to +\infty} y^{\prime}_m (t)$. Since $y_m(t) = y_m(0) +
\int^{t}_0 y^{\prime}_m(s) ds$, and the convergence of $\{y_m\}$ $%
\{y^{\prime}_m\}$ is uniform, we obtain
\begin{equation*}
y(t) = y(0) + \int^{t}_0 z(s) ds
\end{equation*}
which implies that $y^{\prime}(t) = z(t)$; i.e., $y^{\prime}(t) = \lim_{m
\to} y^{\prime}_m(t)$. Moreover $y$ is a solution of \eqref{e1}. This
completes the proof
\end{proof}

\subsection*{Acknowledgement}
The authors wish to thank the anonymous referee for his/her suggestions and
comments. A. Boucherif is grateful to KFUPM for its support.

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